 | 1814 - 286 pages
...Time, the subtile Thief of Youth Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth Year ! My hasting days flie on with full career; But my late Spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth: That I to manhood am arrivd so near And inward... | |
 | 1816 - 778 pages
...terror knew not what was beft ; On what determination to abide. Danifl. How foon hath Time, the fubtile thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year. Mjltai. As fome to witnefs truth, Hesv'n's call obey, So fome on earth mull, to confirm it, ftay. Drydea.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...tal parte men duro, Ove Amor raise 1'insanabil ago. VII. ON HIS UK) Nt; AI1HiV1.1J TO THE AGI OF 23*. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so near ; And inward... | |
 | 1820 - 224 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full careere, But my late spring no bud or blossom shcweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so neare, And inward ripeness doth much lesse appear, _ ' That some more tymely happte spirit... | |
 | 1820 - 230 pages
...twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full careere, But my late spring no bud or blossom sheweth. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, That I to manhood am arriv'd so neare, And inward ripeness doth much lesse appear, That some more tymely happie spirit indu'th... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...bis king arrtneB at the 3lge of <EmeiUij=tljKe. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 pages
...being arribetl at li)e Hge of 5Th)ent1)=ii) vee. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 406 pages
...being artibctl at the 'Sge of tCmcntn=iIj(£c. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year ! My hasting...full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...Ver. 6. To whom Time bears me on his rapid •wing,] The poet had in his memory Milton's Sonnet vii. " How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav'n — ." Wakefield.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...for Arno, Sonn. iii. 9- • his Italian Sonnets have a reVII. On his being arrived to the age q/"23.* How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year ! markable air of gravity and dignity. They are free from the metaphysics of Petrarch, and are more... | |
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. 
